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Pursuing his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the Areas, New York Times best-selling creator Simon Winchester provides an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its own role in the modern world, exploring our romantic relationship with this imposing force of nature. As the Mediterranean molded the classical world and the Atlantic connected Europe to the brand new World, the Pacific Ocean identifies our tomorrow. With China on the rise, so, too, will be the American metropolitan areas of the Western Seacoast, including Seattle, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, and the long cluster of towns down the Silicon Valley. Today the Pacific is ascendant. Its geological record has long changed us - marvelous earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis - but its history, from a Western point of view, is quite young, you start with Magellan's 16th-century circumnavigation. It is a natural wonder whose most exciting history is currently being made. In telling the storyplot of the Pacific, Simon Winchester requires us from the Bering Strait to Cape Horn, from the Yangtze River to the Panama Canal, also to the countless small islands and archipelagos that lay among. He observes the fall of a dictator in Manila, visits aboriginals in Northern Queensland, and is jailed in Tierra del Fuego, the land at the end of the world. His voyage encompasses a trip down the Alaska Highway, a stop at the isolated Pitcairn Islands, a trek across South Korea, and a glance of its secret northern neighbor. Winchester's personal experience is vast and his storytelling second to none. And his historical knowledge of the spot is formidable, making Pacific a paean to this superb sea of beauty, myth, and creativeness that is changing our lives.
